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The Opioid Epidemic

What Everyone Needs to Know

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The Opioid Epidemic

By: Yngvild Olsen, Joshua M. Sharfstein
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
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The opioid epidemic is responsible for longest sustained decline in US life expectancy since the time of World War I and the Great Influenza. In 2017, nearly 50,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose - with an estimated two million more living with opioid addiction every day.

The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, nonpartisan overview of the causes, politics, and treatments tied to the most devastating health crisis of our time. Its comprehensive approach and Q&A format offer listeners a practical path to understanding the epidemic from all sides: the basic science of opioids; the nature of addiction; the underlying reasons for the opioid epidemic; effective approaches to helping individuals, families, communities, and national policy; and common myths related to opioid addiction.

Written by two expert physicians and enriched with stories from their experiences in the crosshairs of this epidemic, this audiobook is a critical resource for any general listener - and for the individuals and families fighting this fight in their own lives.

©2019 Oxford University Press (P)2019 Tantor
Addiction & Recovery Medicine & Health Care Industry Pain Management Physical Illness & Disease Social Sciences Medicine Health Mental Health Substance abuse
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Please don’t listen to this book listen to drug dealer md or painkiller instead their both fairly good and not completely useless and terrible like this book I do not recommend

Awful and misleading do not listen

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